THE INDIA CONNECTION

Paul has over 48 years of real life business experience both here and overseas. He is a former CEO of Tower Insurance (13 years), President of the Insurance Council of NZ and Chairman of the Insurance & Savings Ombudsman Board. From 2006 until 2015 he represented the NZ & Australian interests of CMC Ltd (a Tata Company) until they were merged with their parent company TCS Ltd. He specialized in introducing NZ companies with innovative products and services to the Indian market.

Jimi is an energetic innovator, entrepreneur, businessman and public speaker. And, a networker extraordinaire. Founder of Live More Awesome and finalist for New Zealand Innovator of the Year and New Zealander of the Year in 2014.

Paul has been instrumental in helping establish a lasting partnership in India. He is a strategic connector and is well networked. His strength lies in his understanding of the Indian business environment and helping New Zealand businesses establish strong partnerships. I would recommend Paul any day.

DIANA SHARMA
General Manager Alliances & Partnerships at Unitec Institute of Technology

The Indian market is a truly awesome part of the world to take your company. It is also extremely complex and challenging to work out how you succeed there. Paul Hunt is a market specialist on India. He understands how to do business in India, he understands the culture and he understands what you as a Kiwi exporter need to do and prepare to be successful. Sometimes you may not like the message from Paul about your likelihood of success, but as entrepreneurs time is not our friend and Paul will save you time. He is a fantastic advisor and friend.

ANDREW HAMILTON
CEO at The Icehouse

This note is to record our appreciation of your support and commitment to ecentre and the joint venture CMCTEC that you facilitated. It is through your efforts and the strength of your relationships with the senior leadership team of CMC that ecentre was invited into the joint venture with CMC. The CMCTEC joint venture has had a significant impact on the market presence of ecentre and we were pleased that other business incubators were also able to leverage off this relationship. It is noted that the CMCTEC initiative developed from your identification of the aspirations of CMC and ecentre. Your support and mentoring of the companies we took into India was exemplary .Through your network the companies were able to gain visibility and market validation more quickly than going alone. We would be pleased to utilise the services of your new Indian consulting company in the future.

STEVE CORBETT
Ex-CEO at the ecentre, Massey University.